Did you reboot after starting winbindd? Either do that, or try looking for the nameserver cache daemons (nscd), and kill them all. (Don't worry, they'll restart.)
I had the same problem with nss_ldap, and it drove me NUTS till I found out about the cache mechanism. > -----Original Message----- > From: Noel Kelly [mailto:nkelly@;citrusnetworks.net] > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:46 PM > To: 'Sean Patrick Ingles'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Samba] getent not working correctly > > > You need getent to work. This is really how Unix actually does the > authenticating - winbind is just the conduit to the M$ database. > > Have you edited your /etc/nsswitch.conf correctly? You need: > > passwd: files winbind nisplus > shadow: files winbind nisplus > group: files winbind nisplus > > This will make Unix call winbind when looking for > users/groups (this the > mechanism that getent passwd/group runs). > > HTH, > Noel > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Patrick Ingles [mailto:ingless@;visionsys.com] > Sent: 01 November 2002 15:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] getent not working correctly > > > Hello again! > > Ok, I've gotten wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g working great > > Now I try to run getent passwd and getent group I get my > local users/groups > but not the ones on the Windows 2k Server Domain Controller > and it just > hangs after listing the local ones. > > I also tried authenticating a user and it worked I'm assuming > > wbinfo -a DOMAIN+ingless@DOMAIN%"password" (The usernames here have > user@domain due to some M$ Active-Directory thing...) > plaintext password > authentication succeeded challenge/response password > authentication failed > Could not authenticate user DOMAIN+ingless@DOMAIN%"password" with > challenge/response > > Do I need getent working, or is it safe to assume everything > is functioning > normally now? > > Thanks! > > -SP > > =========================================================== > > \ / ____/ / Sean Patrick Ingles > \ / / / Jr. Network Engineer > \ / ___ / / > \ / / / Vision Systems, Inc. > __/ ____/ _/ 142 State Street > Albany, NY 12207 > www.visionsys.com Landline: +1 518.434.4300 x1406 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +1 518.434.4304 > > ========================================================== > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 15/10/2002 > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.408 / Virus Database: 230 - Release Date: 24/10/2002 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba